Week 16

Our sight words this week are have, jump, & run.  We are finishing our unit on teen numbers.  We are learning about our five senses in science.  We are also learning to write how-to books.  We will be writing about making gingerbread men this week.  We will be reading and comparing different versions of The Gingerbread Man.

Thanksgiving Feast

We gathered together with our Pilgrim and Native American friends from other classes to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Pilgrim children

We have worked hard like Pilgrim children making candles and butter.

The First Thanksgiving

We have read about the first Thanksgiving.  The students retold the story based on the books we read.  I typed up their retelling and gave them a sentence to illustrate.  After retelling, we divided into pairs to illustrate our story.  We sequenced our illustrations to create a class book.  We built bracelets to help us remember the retelling.  Please ask your child to tell you the story.  I have included their book in case they need a reminder during their retelling.

Thanksgiving week

Next week will be a two day week.  We will be out of school from Wednesday to Friday to celebrate Thanksgiving.  On Monday and Tuesday we will be reviewing sight words and teen numbers.  We will also be retelling the story of the first Thanksgiving.  We will be writing about what we are thankful for this week.  We will also be comparing today's Thanksgiving celebration to the first celebration.

A few reminders:   Be sure and check your child's folder on Monday, we will be sending home interims.  Remember to send in your $3.00 for our Christmas boxed lunch from Zaxby's.  A very special thank you to everyone for your Clemson/Carolina Relay for Life donations!  We will continue collecting money through Monday.  Be sure to return or pay for any outstanding coupon books for our fundraiser.  Thanks for supporting our school!  Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Teepee

We are busy painting our teepee this morning.  

Career Day

Thank you to our special visitors that our class visited during career day.  We learned about shredding during our visit from Mr. Ward.  Mrs. Barfield spoke to us about being an author.  We learned about police work from Mr. Clevenger.  Mr. Parrish spoke tous about owning a restaurant.  We also watched the Regional One helicopter take off.  What a fun Friday!

Week 13

Our sight words this week are one, two, & three.  We will continue working on teen numbers for the rest of the nine weeks.  We are learning about the election process in social studies.   We are focusing on writing narratives.  Our wonder of the week is how does different kinds of candy dissolve in various liquids.

Strawberry Hill

We loved our visit to Strawberry Hill.